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Missing documentation on how to locally develop #8

Closed julillosamaral closed 5 months ago

julillosamaral commented 1 year ago

I notice it's not clear how to locally test the library.

I followed this: https://github.com/IFCjs/docs/blob/main/docs/components/contributing.md#start-coding

The issue with the three steps is that is not enough to test my changes locally. My case is that I'm using react to develop/test and not vanila js.

I saw on npm I can use npm link (https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v10/commands/npm-link) to locally test the changes.

I did it and it works, the only problem is I had to follow the following process:

  1. On components execute: npm run build
  2. cp package.json dist/
  3. npm link
  4. Go to the project I'm using for development
  5. npm link openbim-components

Step 2 is the one I feel strange, maybe copying package.json inside the dist folder or have a command that does 1,2 and 3?

Besides that, I could work on the documentation to be more clear.

Thoughts?

agviegas commented 5 months ago

Hey, with the latest doc update, I added step-by-step instructions about how to develop locally! Let me know if you have any questions about them :)